On Saturday Meredith and I went to Gruppo and HOUSED one of their amazing pizzas. I don't usually like thin-crust pizza, but for whatever reason, I love theirs. Easily my favorite pizza place in the East Village!
Lisa made me promise her that I wouldn't post the picture I took of her drunkenly biting into a falafel with tiny, wonky eyes so instead I'll post this picture of falafels. Mmmmmm.
Jenny has no recollection of this whatsoever! When I first showed her these photos, she was laughing and she asked "What in the world was I eating? What are those, cookies?" I told her, "No, they were chicken nuggets." Jenny groaned really loud and said, "Oh, nooooo! I'm a vegetarian!" Hahahaha.
I also love how the whole time all this nugget-eating is going on, Leigh's calling and texting people in Jenny's phone at 4:40am trying to figure out where her apartment is.
The proprietor at this restaurant hooked me up with a nice meal, but totally fucked me by giving me tap water. He brought out a big bottle of Aquafina water, and made a big show of opening the cap and pouring it into my glass - but as soon as I started drinking it, I could tell that it was just tap water that he'd put into an Aquafina bottle. Had terrible stomach cramps and crazy fever dreams all night, but didn't get this shits. (My stomach is basically made of iron).
After walking around the town for a bit and checking out different hotels and hostels, I decided to stop and get something to eat. I ended up going to a tiny local shop and getting koshary! Koshary is a traditional Egyptian meal that consists of a strange combination of macaroni, spaghetti, rice, black lentils, chick peas, garlic sauce and a spicy tomato chili sauce, all topped with fried onions. It sounds weird, but it's fucking awesome and I ended up eating at least 2 of these a day the rest of my time in Dahab.
There weren't many vegetarian options at the hotel, but at 6pm I was still not ready to venture back out into the chaos of the Cairo streets, so I just ordered a couple small dishes.
Afterwards, I rode my bike all the way back downtown in the freezing cold and met up with Lisa and Pauly at Niagra. We had a couple of drinks and then decided to hit Odessa for some late night grub.
I'm not sure how you kicked off your 2008, but we kicked off our 2008 with a whole shit-ton of delicious Thai food for breakfast! Awwww, yeah! After get our spread set up...
